Re: 2.6.10-rc2: strange behavior on dual Opteron w/ NUMA [u]

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 19:47:42 EST


On Tuesday 16 of November 2004 00:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 15 of November 2004 23:35, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I suspect that this has been intorduced in 2.6.10-rc1-mm5, so if you
have
> any
> > > ideas, please let me know. If you need more information, please let me
> know
> > > too.
> >
> > Could be the recent futex change. It seems to cause all kinds of problems.
> > I would try reverting that.
>
> You mean futex_wait-fix.patch? Hasn't it already been identified as a buggy
> one?

For the record: 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 does not seem to have the problem, and it has
the futex_wait-fix.patch reverted, apparently, so I assume that this patch
was really to blame.

Greets,
RJW

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